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Queer Families Group: Making wings and making friends

On a drizzly day in Glasgow, our new Queer Families group gathered for an afternoon of storytelling and crafts. Working in collaboration with community members and Rainbow Families, we realised ...

Sharing your Learning about Rights

Sharing good practice isn't always easy. At Outside the Box we often have people tell us something they do well that someone else has been struggling to find information about. ...

Rural Wisdom: Connecting the Dots in North Angus

On Friday 18 January 2019, the Rural Wisdom project held a very successful Connecting the Dots event in Brechin City Hall to plan what follows on from the project in ...

Putting Rights into Reality

What are our human rights? And how organisations use human rights to help communities in Scotland? Yesterday we went along to an event looking at just that. The CHEX Rights ...

Human Rights Training For Older People in Galashiels 

A free training session in Galashiels aims to encourage recognition of older people’s rights as human rights. Led by Outside The Box, it forms part of the Borders Care Voice ...

Keeping Connected in Winter

Lots of people find winter a challenge,  it can also be a challenge for community groups too. This is especially true in more rural areas. We’ve been working with people ...